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CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: Dr Saul NEWMAN Reader in Political Theory Department of Politics Goldsmiths - University of London New Cross

London SE14 6NW UK (+44) 020 7919 7747 s.newman@gold.ac.uk

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DATE OF BIRTH: March 22, 1972.

TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS: Doctor of Philosophy 1994-1998 Awarded 1998 University of New South Wales Political Science Awarded 1994 University of New South Wales Political Science Awarded 1993 University of Sydney Government, Philosophy, History

First Class Honours

1993 - 1994

Bachelor of Arts

1990 - 1992

DISTINCTIONS and AWARDS: Visiting Professor of Political Theory, University of Ljubljana, March-April 2011 ANU Visiting Fellowship in the Sociology Program, Jan-Mar 2011 (Awarded 2009) British Academy Small Research Grant, 2007. Deputy Secretary of the International Political Science Association Research Committee on Political Power (RC 36), 2003-04 UWA Research Grant, 2002 UWA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2001-2004 Macquarie University Research Grant (MURG), 2000 Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine (UCI), 1999 Macquarie University New Staff Grant (MUNS), 1999
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Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MURF), 1999-2001 University of Essex Research Program, 1994 - 1995 Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), 1994-1997

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD: Goldsmiths University of London, Department of Politics (2006 - Current) - READER (2008 current) - SENIOR LECTURER (2007-2008) - LECTURER (2006-2007) Teaching: Level 1 Ideas, Ideologies, Conflict: Introduction to Political Theory; Level 2 Modern Political Thought; Level 3: Discourse, Power, Politics; MA Continental Political Theory. Director of Research Unit for Politics and Ethics. Administration: Undergraduate admissions tutor; joint degree program coordinator (History/Politics; Sociology/Politics); postgraduate research supervision; Teaching and Learning Committee. Curtin University, Department of Social Sciences (2005) - LECTURER Teaching: 2nd/3rd year Australian Public Policy; 1st year Political Ideas/Introduction to International Relations. Edith Cowan University, School of International, Cultural and Community Studies (2004-05) - LECTURER Teaching: 2nd/3rd year Themes in Global Politics: 3rd year Debate and Decision in Australian Politics; 1st year Foundations of Politics and Government. University of Western Australia, Department of Political Science and International Relations (2001-2004/5) - UWA POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW (2001-04) - LECTURER AND TUTOR (2003-05) Teaching: 2nd/3rd year Media and Politics; 1st year The Liberal-Democratic State; 2nd/3rd year Contemporary Political Theory: Debates and Policy Implications; 2nd/3rd year The History of Political Ideas: Freedom, Justice and Democracy. Macquarie University, Department of Sociology (1999-2001) - MURF RESEARCH FELLOW - TUTOR Teaching: 2nd year The Sociology of Individuality and Exchange; 3rd year Sociology of Writing and the Image. University of New South Wales, Department of Politics and International Relations (1994 - 1997) - TUTOR Teaching: 2nd year Marxism and Democracy.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION: Jonathan Lartice, Alain Badious Subject and Theories of Political Action (MPhil/PhD), 2008 Amedeo Policante, Hostis Humani Generis: A Study on Political Myth (MPhil/PhD) (funded through Goldsmiths Politics department PhD studentship) 2009 Luke Evans, Democracy contra Disaster: Contemporary Modalities of Class, Charity and Postcolonial Power, (MPhil/PhD) 2010 Erin Tschiderer, Anarchism and Squatting in the UK (MPhil/PhD) 2010 PHD EXAMINATION University of Greenwich internal examiner, 2007 Queen Mary University of London internal examiner, 2009, 2010 University of Exeter external examiner, 2010 University of Adelaide external examiner 2011 RESEARCH CENTRES and NETWORKS: Director of Research Unit for Politics and Ethics (RUPE) Goldsmiths, University of London. Coordinator of seminar series on The Libertarian Impulse. Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University of London. Research Committee 36 Theories of Power, International Political Science Association. EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES: Editorial Advisory Board, Anarchist Studies Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Power Editorial Advisory Board, What is Radical Politics Today Magazine? (Space of Democracy/Democracy of Space) Editorial Advisory Board, Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies Reviewer for Contemporary Political Theory, Anarchist Studies; British Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Political Studies, Theory & Event, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Mobilization. Reviewed book proposals and manuscripts for: Palgrave, Routledge, Manchester University Press. PUBLICATIONS: Books: 2012: (forthcoming, under contract) Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights: Statelessness, Images, Violence (with John Lechte), Edinburgh University Press. 2010: The Politics of Postanarchism, Edinburgh University Press. 2008: Politics Most Unusual: Violence, Sovereignty and Democracy in the War on Terror (co-authored with Michael Levine and Damian Cox), Palgrave Macmillan. 2007: Unstable Universalities: Poststructuralism and Radical Politics, Manchester University Press.

2006: BakuninDen Lacana (Turkish translation with new Foreword) Ayrinti. 2005: Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought: New Theories of the Political. Routledge. 2001: From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power, Lanham, M.D.: Lexington Books (2nd edition 2007) Edited books: 2011: (forthcoming, in press) Max Stirner (Critical Explorations in Contemporary Thought series) Palgrave Macmillan. Book chapters: 2012: (forthcoming, in press): Stirners Ethics of Voluntary Inservitude, Max Stirner (Critical Explorations in Contemporary Thought series), ed., Saul Newman, Palgrave Macmillan. 2011: Post-Anarchism and Radical Politics Today, Post-Anarchism: A Reader, ed., Duane Rousselle and Sureyyya Evren, London: Pluto Press. 2011: Research Methods and Problems: Postanarchism, Continuum Companion to Anarchism, ed., Ruth Kinna, Continuum (forthcoming) 2011: Terror, Sovereignty and Law: On the Politics of Violence, Transnational Law: Scholarship from the Frontier, eds., Russell Miller and Peer Zumbansen, Oxford University Press (forthcoming) 2010: Anarchism, Utopia and the Future of Radical Politics, Anarchism and Utopianism, ed., Ruth Kinna and Laurence Davis, Manchester University Press. 2009: Anarchism, What is Radical Politics Today?, ed., Jonathan Pugh, Palgrave Macmillan. 2009: Politics in the Age of Control, Deleuze and New Technology, ed., David Savat and Mark Poster, Edinburgh University Press. 2009: Imprisoning Politics: The Logic of Security and the Undermining of Democracy, The Impact of 9/11 on Politics and War: The Day that Changed Everything?, ed., Matt Morgan, Palgrave Macmillan. 2008: Die Politik des Postanarchismus, Neuer Anarchismus in Den USA, ed., Gabriel Kuhn, Munster: Unrast. 2007: Terrible Terror: Security, Violence and Democracy in the War on Terrorism (with Michael Levine), Interrogating the War on Terror ed., Deborah Staines, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2006: Does Power Have a Place? Hegemony, Antagonism and Radical Politics, Hegemony and Power: Consensus and Coercion in Contemporary Politics, ed., Mark Haugaard and Howard Lentner, Lexington Books. 2005: Anarchism and the Politics of Ressentiment, I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite: Nietzsche and Anarchism, ed., John Moore, Autonomedia. 2004: La Political Del Post-Anarchismo. Antisofia3: Viaggio Nella Modernita, ed., Ubaldo Fadini, Paolo Ferri, Tiziana Villani, Mimesis: Milan. 2003: Poststructuralism and Universality, Liveable Communities. Ed., Janice Haswell and Diana McCallum, Black Swan Press. Edited Journals:

2011: (forthcoming, in press) Journal of Political Ideologies Special Issue on The Libertarian Impulse 2008: Anarchist Studies Special Issue on Postanarchism, Vol.16, No. 2. Refereed journal articles: 2011: (accepted, forthcoming) Crowned Anarchy: Postanarchism and International Relations, Millennium Journal of International Studies. 2011: (accepted, forthcoming) Postanarchism and Space: revolutionary fantasies and autonomous zones, Planning Theory. 2010: The Horizon of Anarchy: Anarchism and contemporary radical thought, Theory & Event, 13: 2. 2010: Postanarchism and Power, Journal of Power, 3:2. 2008: Connollys Democratic Pluralism and the Question of State Sovereignty, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 10, No.2 2007: Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the Future of Radical Politics, SubStance #13 Vol. 36/2. 2006: War, Politics, Race: Reflections on Violence in the War on Terror (with Michael Levine), Theoria, 110 (August) 2006: Sacred Cows and The Changing Face of Discourse on Terrorism: Cranking it Up a Notch (with Michael Levine) International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 10/4. 2005: Stirner e Foucault: em direcao a uma liberdade pos-kantiana, Verve. Vol. 7. 2004: The Place of Power in Political Discourse, International Political Science Review Vol. 25/2. 2004: New Reflections on the Theory of Power: a Lacanian Perspective, Contemporary Political Theory Vol. 3/2. 2004: Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State, Anarchist Studies. Vol. 12/1. 2004: Interrogating the Master: Lacan and Radical Politics, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Vol. 9. 2004: Terror, Sovereignty and Law: On the Politics of Violence. German Law Journal 5/5 2003: Stirner and Foucault: Towards a Post-Kantian Freedom, Postmodern Culture Vol. 13/2. 2003: Spectres of the Uncanny: the return of the repressed in politics, Telos 124 Summer 2002. 2003: Empiricism, Pluralism and Politics in Stirner and Deleuze, Idealistic Studies Vol. 33/1. 2002: Strategie etiche contro il domino, Libertaria, Vol. 4/1. 2002: Max Stirner and the Politics of Post-Humanism, Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 1/2. 2002: Politics of the Ego: Stirners Critique of Liberalism, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 5/3 (Autumn). 2001: Derrida and the Deconstruction of Authority, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 27/3. 2001: 'For Collective Social Action: Towards a Postmodern Theory of Collective Identity', Philosophy and Social Action, Vol. 27/1. 2001: War on the State: Deleuze and Stirners Anarchism, Anarchist Studies, Vol. 9/2.

2001: Foucault and the Limits of Power, International Journal of Political Studies (RIEP) Vol. 3/1. 2001: Spectres of Stirner: a Contemporary Critique of Ideology, Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 6/3. 2000: Universalism/Particularism: Towards a Poststructuralist Politics of Universality, New Formations, 41. 2000: Anarchism and the Politics of Ressentiment, Theory and Event, Vol. 4.3. Other publications: 2011: Encyclopedia entry: The War on Terror, Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. 2010: Roundtable Discussion on Transnational Militancy in the 21st Century (with Nathan Coombs, Faisal Devji and Kevin McDonald) Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, Issue 2, 2010. 2008: Encyclopedia entry: Power, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition. 2008: Book Review: Polemics by Alain Badiou, trans., Steve Corcoran (Verso, 2006) Contemporary Political Theory, 7 (2008): 225-229. 2007: Book Review: Robert Grahame, ed., Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas. Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300CE to 1939) Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2005. Labour/La Travaille 2006: What is Revolution? Special Issue Birikim (May) 2006: Interview with Saul Newman with Evrim Altug, Birgun (17 September) 2005: Interview with Saul Newman by Sureyyya Evren, Kursad Kiziltug, Erden Kosova. Siyahi Interlocal: Journal of Postanarchist Theory, Culture and Politics, April 2005 < http://www.livejournal.com/community/siyahi/> 2005: Book Review: Steve Redhead, ed., The Paul Virilio Reader, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004; and Steve Redhead, Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture, Edinburgh University Press, 2004. NASS National Academy of Screen and Sound http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/nass/nass_current_issue.htm 2004: Is there a Postanarchist Universality? Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, 8/2 (Fall): 49-53/. 2003: Book Review: Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas, by John P. McCormick, ed., (Duke University Press, 2002) Australian Journal of Political Science, 38/2 2003: The Politics of Post-anarchism. Institute for Anarchist Studies website: http://www.anarchist-studies.org/article/articleview/1/1/1/ 2002: Review Essay: On the Future of Radical Politics, The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, July. 2002: Book Review: The Nature of Capital: Marx after Foucault, by Richard Marsden, (Routledge 1999) Political Studies, 49/1. Invited talks and keynote addresses: 2011: Voluntary Servitude Reconsidered: the problem of self-domination and radical politics, Symposium on Radical Publishing: What are we Struggling For?, Institute for Contemporary Arts, March.

2010: Debating Postanarchism: Ontology, Ethics, Utopia, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, 5 February 2010: Postanarchism: a politics of anti-politics? Keynote address to Department of Philosophy conference, University College, Cork Ireland February 2010: Postanarchism and Power, Philosophy, Politics, Economics Society, University of Warwick March 2010: The challenge of radical politics in the EU: theorising social movements in the European context. Symposium on Transformation of the EU and the Challenge of the Future. Colorado European Union Center of Excellence (CEUCE) at the University of Colorado at Boulder - April. 2010: The Coming Insurrection and the Politics of Invisibility, FutureEverything festival Manchester - May 2009: The Postanarchist Subject, Another Politics, Another Subject conference at the University of Aberystwyth conference, Department of International Politics, 2022 April 2009: A Politics of Anti-Politics? Postanarchism and the Political', Post-Space and Democracy Seminar, School of Law, University of Westminster, 25 November 2009: Crowned Anarchy: Towards a Postanarchist Ontology, Department of Politics, Queen Mary University of London 2008: Imprisoning Politics: Multiculturalism, Security and Democracy in the War on terror. ESRC Seminar series on War on Terror, University of Birmingham, 14 March 2008: Knowledge is made for Cutting: Foucaults Discourse of War. Keynote address, Foucault Spring School, University of Leuven, 19 March. 2008: Control, Post-Politics and the Invisibility of the People, Institute of Advanced Studies conference -New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living, University of Lancaster, 8-9 May 2008: Is Democracy Dead? panel discussion Leeds University Union Social Forum, October 2008: What you want is another Master!: Lacan and Radical Politics, InC Research Group in Continental Philosophy, Goldsmiths, November 2008: Security, Insecurity, Anti-Security Aberystwyth International Politics (APIG) Seminar Series, Dept. of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, November. 2008: Postanarchism and Radical Politics Today, Centre for Contemporary History and Politics, University of Salford 2008: Postanarchism and Contemporary Politics, Department of Politics, International Relations & European Studies, Loughborough University 2007: Universalism and Radical Politics Seminar paper at the School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College 2007: Connollys Democratic Pluralism and the Question of State Sovereignty Conference on Pluralism and Democracy, Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham, 18 May 2007: Politics in the Age of Control seminar paper. Department of International Relations, Politics and Sociology, Oxford Brookes University, 5 December 2006: The Politics of Postanarchism Seminar paper at the Centre for the Study of

Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham, September. 2006: Poststructuralism, Universality and Radical Politics Today Seminar paper at the Centre for Theoretical Studies, University of Essex Conference papers: 2009: Securitising Multiculturalism: Tolerance as a discourse of de-politicisation', ECPR Workshop on Practices of Citizenship and the Politics of (In)Security, Lisbon, 1419 April. 2009: Critical Responses to the War on Terror colloquium, Fourth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, University of Athens July 8-11. 2009: Postanarchism between Politics and Anti-Politics: rethinking the political through anarchism, Manchester Political Theory Workshops, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2-4 September. 2009: Law and Transgression: radical politics and psychoanalysis, Critical Legal Conference, University of Leicester, 11-13 September. 2008: Subjectivity, Resistance and Politics in the Societies of Control, World International Studies Conference, Ljubljana, July 23-26. 2006: Anarchism, Utopianism and the Politics of Emancipation, Utopian Studies Society Conference, Tarragona, 6-8 July. 2005: War, Politics and Race: Reflections on Violence in the War on Terror 30th Anniversary British International Studies (BISA) Conference, St Andrews Scotland. 2004: Sacred Cows and The Changing Face of Discourse on Terrorism: Cranking it Up a Notch. (with Michael Levine) Conference on War, Center for Humanities and Arts, University of Colorado. 2004: Max Stirners Politics of Resistance Society for European Philosophy 7th Annual Conference. Conference on Resistance, Greenwich University, London. 2003: Power, Sovereignty and Democracy in Political Discourse - American Political Science Association (APSA) 99th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia 2003: The Place of Power in Political Discourse - International Political Science Association (IPSA) XIX World Congress, Durban. 2003: Technologies of Violence: Terrorism, Power and Sovereignty - Australian Political Science Association (APSA) Conference, Hobart. 2002: Spectres of the Uncanny / Or Why Was Stirner Afraid of Ghosts? Third Essex Conference in Political Theory, Essex University, UK. 2001: Advancing the Power Debate: From Foucault to Lacan International Political Science Association (IPSA) RC36 Power, Culture and Democracy Conference, Helsinki 2000: Empiricism, Pluralism and Politics in Stirner and Deleuze Australian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Conference, Sydney. 2000: Universalism/Particularism: Towards a Poststructuralist Politics of Universality, International Political Science Association (IPSA) XVIII World Congress, Quebec

REFEREES: Professor Simon Tormey Head of School of Social and Political Sciences University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Tel; +0061 (0) 2 9036 7863 Fax: +0061 (0) 2 9036 9380 Email: simon.tormey@usyd.edu.au Professor Ernesto Laclau C/o Noreen Harburt Centre for Theoretical Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences University of Essex Wivenhoe Park, Colchester C04 3SQ, United Kingdom Tel: +44 01206 872178. Email: noreen@essex.ac.uk Professor Paul Patton Department of Philosophy University of New South Wales NSW 2052, Australia Tel: +61 (02) 9385 2391 Email: prp@unsw.edu.au Professor Michael Levine School of Humanities - Philosophy University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley, WA 6009 Australia Tel: +61 (08) 6488 2108 Email: mlevine@cyllene.uwa.edu.au Professor John Lechte Department of Sociology Macquarie University NSW 2109, Australia Tel: +61 (02) 9850 - 8620 Email: jlechte@scmp.mq.edu.au Dr. Ephraim Nimni School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy Queens University Belfast University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK

Tel: +44 (0)208 9097 3625 Email: e.nimni@qub.ac.uk Dr Ruth Kinna Senior Lecturer Department of Politics, History & International Relations University of Loughborough Loughborough, Leics, LE11 3TU UK Tel.: +44 (0)1509 223651 Email R.E.Kinna@lboro.ac.uk Professor David van Mill School of Social and Cultural Studies - Political Science University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley, WA 6009 Australia Tel: +61 (08) 6488 3427 Email: dvanmill@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

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